At Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Sally Grigg wrote:
>Sally, Thank you, and thank you all for the empathy. It makes me laugh, cry, and feel part of a school of fish instead of the only one. I have to remember that I have it easy compared to so many. Most of my bad treatment from doctors is from female physicians, I just don't understand it. I mean adhesions are all over the place: news, media, medical journals, and the internet. Every place I turn seems to say that they cause pain, they cannot be detected, it isn't in a persons head, but where are the asses that write this? I want to see one of these doctors. I give up. >Dear Em, Everything you said was right on.. But that's the way it is. >Doctors are only people with an education that stresses some things and >leaves out adhesions, pain, compassion and courage. I went to a >psychiatrist, a very nice, helpful lady who gave me a letter stating her >medical credentials (IMPRESSIVE ) and stating flatly that my pain was in my >abdomen, not in my head. She said that I was very well adjusted considering >the fact that I lived in great pain a lot of the time. She specifically >asked the person reading the letter, presumably a doctor specializing in >either adhesions or pain, to give me the respect I was due. > >The first thing that the pain center did was say "since you carry around a >letter stating that you are not "crazy" (my words) there must be something >wrong with you or you would not have gone to such lengths to convince us >otherwise. I had a cattle prod in the car for my bull, and it took a lot of >will power to keep from going out and getting it and giving him a shot in >the balls and asking him how he felt. I was so mad. > >Sometimes you just can not win. But you have to keep trying. In years to >come, people will look back at our struggle and be amazed at what we went >through to just get decent treatment let alone respect and adequate pain >managment. > >Remember that we did not get the right to vote until 80 years ago. I saw a >program about the women's movement in England. It showed actual footage of >women in lovely Victorian dresses chained to walls with no accommodations >for necessary bodily functions, etc. This was because the women dared to >want to own land in their own name and inherit property and work and keep >their paycheck. We have come a long way. > >Sorry, I got a little carried away there myself. Anyway, good luck and read >the adhesions site http://www.adhesions.org. It's great. Love, Sally Grigg >http://www.howardcreekranch.com